Sunday, January 4, 2015

Letter from Lazara Brito Gonzalez dated March
10, 1993. Brought by my wife from Cuba in an organizer and which I translated for FBI Special Agents
James King and John Grant on March 30, 1993.

Picture
sent by Lazara to identify herself with the CIA for future extraction.
The picture was forwarded to the CIA c. Sep 1993.

Addressed to Nila.

Nila: Since I don’t have the opportunity to
kiss you goodbye, I transmit immense gratitude for your concerns for all of us
and we will always feel indebted to you who have shown proof so much
disinterest and great confidence. Know in these islands you have close friends
who will never place any doubt [in you], offering our full support like you do
with us.

I wish you a great return trip. Give a great
kiss and a great hug to Billi – that’s how we call our son. I have the
certainty that we will soon see each other again.

With great wishes, so long. Take care. A kiss
full of love and cherished love,

Letter From RolandoSarraff Trujillo identifying himself to establish his bonafides with the CIA.
My wife transcribed it and I translated it for FBI Special Agents James King
and John Grant on March 30, 1993.

Written by Rolando
Sarraff Trujillo (a.k.a. Carlos, Roman, Roly) on March 10, 1993.

Addressed to Bill
Gaede

Dear brother,

What tremendous satisfaction to hear from both
of you. It’s that both of you form part of our lives like the roots of a tree
to its bit of earth. You cannot imagine the immense joy that the encounter with
Nila meant for us. How many memories came to mind! How many desires to transmit
our deepest sentiments and express to her our love and admiration that we feel
for both of you and it’s because great men earn the right to the sentiments of
others. Friend, if it is about virtue, don’t harbor the least doubt that for us
the main thing is loyalty, but without subjugation, and if something consoles
you, both of you are among the group of perrsons to whom we owe fealty, but not
that which is given for mean-spirited ideas or opportunistic ambition, but
rather for that which is granted for rights that were won, for your own merits.

Bill, we understand your state of mind, but
think, friend, that there is no known grand enterprise in this world worth
mentioning that wasn’t impregnated with difficulties. It must be that the great
enterprises, for them to garner the popular admiration, must be accompanied by
great sacrifices.

Brother, any psychological state is a human
condition, even fear, and there are few men who manage to overcome it.
Fortunately, all of us are within that select group, just to mention what both
of you have done to feel pride in having known you. Bill, and if you have
managed to overcome the most difficult things, you have to learn to control
your impulses. Keep in mind that the task to which we have devoted our greatest
energies, what must prevail above all is equanimity. It is not uncertainty that
must take hold of us, but rather the mature worthiness of professionals that we
are.

Don’t think that we are made of cold steel.
After your calls, we went though harrowing moments, but we swore an oath of
honor to maintain calm and, as you can see, your brothers are still alive.

On the other hand, we believe that you were too
impulsive to escape from your home. You can be totally sure that the
performance of our friends [CIA/FBI] with you is in response to an operational
logic that is always applied in similar situations and circumstances. Over here
we act in the same way, but with the difference that you have to respond to it
in a dark interrogation room, What a difference, don’t you think so?

We are of the opinion that you must immediately
reestablish personal communications with the brothers, because to do the contrary
is to sow doubts. It’s not sufficient with the information we can supply that,
aside from everything else, will be of the greatest value, since what drives us
is a just cause.

It is also necessary that you demonstrate – and
you certainly are overendowed for this –

the truth of our objectives and the purity of
our acts.

Success depends on you and your person and the
information we can supply, in other words, you put your face and we put the
material. Without that unity there will be no success.

Finally, my friend, never doubt us because to
have doubts of brothers is a thing of hell and your life is worth Paradise.

In
this third episode we establish that Pepe Cohen was working under orders of the Interior Ministry when he feigned the role of counter-revolutionary in front of Fidel's cameras and recorders. Pepe confessed his philosophical change of heart in a room at the Riviera Hotel in January of 1992. However, in a televised interview in 2008, both Pepe and Jorge Luis Vazquez, a Cuban researcher of dealings between Cuba and East Germany, disclose that the East German Secret Service (Stasi) bugged many hotels in Havana as early as 1984 at the request of obsessed Minister of the Interior Ramiro Valdes who "suspected of everything and everyone".

In the first episode we established that Pepe Cohen did not deliver information to the CIA since 1990 as he said on TV, but rather since June 1992. In this episode, FBI agents testify that the information that Pepe sent is not credible. They conclude that Fidel Castro is setting a trap to ensnare CIA agents while they attempt to extract Pepe, Lazara and Roly from the island.

There is an additional, objective way to establish that PR-2 was not credible. Pursuant to his own declarations on TV, Pepe escaped from the island on a raft in August of 1994. The CIA had a contingency plan to extract him, for instance through the Guantanamo Base, because the agency believed that Pepe could be useful once he was out. However, the agents never implemented the plan because they believed at all times that this was a trap set up by Fidel Castro .

Cuban intelligence officers Pepe Cohen, his
wife, Captain Lazara Brito Gonzalez, and Lieutenant Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, working on
behalf of the G2 Secret Serviceof
the Interior Ministry of Cuba, set the trap that is eventually going to end up landing Roly in prison .

We begin the series by showing that Jose 'Pepe' Cohen did not provide information to the CIA since 1990 as he claims today. At best, he provided information to the U.S. Government since July 13, 1992, which is the date I first visited CIA headquarters in Langley, VA. I introduce as evidence Federal Code Rule 16 material introduced at trial (U.S. v Bill Gaede CR 20118 RMW, Northern District California, San Jose Division, 145 F3d 1342, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Court Case 98-8940, Bill Gaede v. U.S.): FBI Report September 2, 1992.

Therefore, we establish that Pepe Cohen lies when he says that he spied for the CIA within Cuba for 4 or 5 years prior to escaping from the island on August 18, 1994. Unmasking this seemingly innocent fib will lead to the conclusion that Pepe Cohen, Rolando Sarraff, and Lazara Brito were double agents while on the island. Pepe became useful to the U.S. agencies only AFTER he came out.

More than two weeks have passed since the White House announced that
it had traded three imprisoned Cuban intelligence officers — including
one convicted of conspiracy to murder — for a super spy held in a Havana
prison whom President Barack Obama labeled “one of the most important
intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba.”

But
since the president’s announcement, there’s been only silence. Nothing
more has been said of the spy or his accomplishments. Of the people
released from prison as part of the deal between Washington and Havana,
the three Cuban spies and U.S. Agency for International Development
contractor Alan Gross have all appeared on television to talk exultantly
about their release.

Yet Washington’s master spy has remained
anonymous and incommunicado. The only man who seems to fit the handful
of clues the White House provided about the spy’s identity — former
Cuban Interior Ministry Lt. Rolando Sarraff, jailed since his arrest in
1995 — has disappeared from the Havana prison where he was being held,
and his family members say they’ve neither heard from him nor been told
his whereabouts.

The Obama administration won’t confirm Sarraff’s name, much less why he could be out of reach.